Jasper Rees

Rees has been a journalist since 1988 and has written mostly for the Daily Telegraph and The Independent. He is also the author of five books, including Let's Do It, the authorised biography of Victoria Wood.{{Cite web |last=Sturges |first=Fiona |date=2020-11-12 |title=Victoria Wood biography Let's Do It is an acute analysis of a funny kind of genius |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/victoria-wood-authorised-biography-lets-do-it-review-funny-genius-757713 |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Purves |first1=Libby |title=Let's Do It by Jasper Rees review — the comedy genius of Victoria Wood |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/lets-do-it-by-jasper-rees-review-victoria-wood-zvpw2hkkc |access-date=30 August 2024 |work=The Times |date=23 October 2020}}

Rees has written about his Welsh heritage in his 2011 memoir Bred of Heaven. The book caused controversy when Rees was upset by a review in the Daily Mail by journalist Roger Lewis, who called Welsh a "moribund monkey language".{{Cite web |last=WalesOnline |date=2012-06-06 |title=Author Jasper Rees "upset" by reaction to quest to discover his Welshness |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/author-jasper-rees-upset-reaction-2028761 |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Wales Online |language=en}} Member of Parliament Jonathan Edwards also referred the review to both the Press Complaints Commission and the police.{{cite news |title=Daily Mail's Welsh 'monkey language' book review anger |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14548630 |access-date=30 August 2024 |work=BBC |date=16 August 2011}}

In 2010 Rees released his book I Found My Horn,{{Cite news |last=Tomes |first=Susan |date=1 February 2008 |title=Review: I Found My Horn By Jasper Rees |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/i-found-my-horn-by-jasper-rees-776577.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The Independent}} which was adapted for the stage.{{Cite news |last=Billington |first=Michael |date=2009-11-12 |title=I Found My Horn |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/12/theatre |access-date=2024-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite web |last1=Hutera |first1=Donald |title=I Found My Horn review |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/i-found-my-horn-review-at-white-bear-theatre-london-from-jonathan-guy-lewis-and-jasper-rees |website=The Stage |date=2 February 2023}} He also wrote a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins in 2016, which was adapted into the film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.{{Cite news |last=O'Keeffe |first=Alice |date=2016-05-11 |title=Florence Foster Jenkins biography review – why did the singer expose herself to mockery? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/11/florence-foster-jenkins-nicholas-martin-jasper-rees-review |access-date=2024-07-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument (HarperCollins, 2008 {{ISBN|9780061979712}})
• I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument (Orion, 2010 {{ISBN|9780753826430}})
• Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots (Profile, 2011 {{ISBN|9781847654229}})
• Florence Foster Jenkins, a biography written to coincide with Nicholas Martin's screenplay for the eponymous film starring Meryl Streep (St Martin's, 2016 {{ISBN|9781250115966}})
• Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood (Orion, 2016 {{ISBN|9781409184126}})

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